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| About the Book | |
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Free Excerpt From The Book (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
How about a writing direction with plenty of work, strong and growing demand for good writers, hourly rates of $50-125+ ($60-75 average) and where all time is billed? No flat fees with vast, open-ended commitments of time. Translation? Less time working to pay bills and more time pursuing your writing passions. We’re talking about freelance commercial writing – writing for business entities, large and small – the subject of The Well-Fed Writer, and quite possibly the answer for all aspiring writers who want to turn their love of writing into their living. The book was a triple-book-club-selection (Book-of-the-Month, Quality Paperback Book and Writer’s Digest) and earned several prestigious awards. Why commercial writing? In the past decade, two huge trends have sculpted the corporate American landscape: downsizing and outsourcing. Corporations are doing more with less: fewer people, less resources and smaller budgets, and many organizations rely heavily on freelancers to help them pick up the slack. Why do corporations hire freelancers? NO salary, benefits, and vacation time to pay. They get fresh “outsider” perspectives. They pay only for what they need when they need it (and pay handsomely). With a stable of freelancers, they get a broad spectrum of talent which they can form-fit to their specific writing needs. What’s “commercial writing”? Marketing brochures, ad copy, newsletters, direct mail campaigns, video/CD-ROM scripting, speeches, sales sheets, proposals, web content, and so much more. Veteran commercial freelancer Bob Bly, the freelance writing "guru" (author of 55+ writing titles), says of commercial freelancing: “I know of no other arena of writing so lucrative yet so easy to get started in.” His take on Well-Fed: "This book is the best information on how to make more money with corporate clients I have ever read. It answers everything you want to know." The Well-Fed Writer takes you step-by-detailed-step through, indeed, everything you need to know to quickly get your share of this exciting and highly lucrative arena of freelancing. What’s covered? The lifestyle, why be a commercial writer, the qualities needed to succeed, getting established, where the work is, who to contact, what to say when you do, what to charge, how to get paid, different projects you’d be working, types of clients, and more. Plus, several robust appendices include numerous sales letters, contracts, forms, etc, along with a whole section of samples to give you a sense of the work you might be doing. And finally a section for at-home Moms featuring interviews with three Moms juggling motherhood and the writing life. And while you’re here on this site, be sure to check out The Well-Fed Writer: Back For Seconds, (click here) the companion volume (NOT a revised edition; 95% new content!) to The Well-Fed Writer. And buy both together here and save!
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| About the Author | |
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Peter Bowerman is the author of the 2000 Book-of-the-Month Club selection, The Well-Fed Writer and its 2005 companion, TWFW: Back For Seconds (both self-published), how-to “standards” on writing for businesses for $50-125/hour. In 2006, he released The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living. |
